Pacific locomotive after Winsford crash
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Pacific locomotive after Winsford crash
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 2 May 1948
View eastward at Crewe Works, LMSR: Stanier 'Coronation' 4-6-2 No. 6251 'City of Nottingham' awaits repair. It had been heading the Up West Coast Postal when it collided at 40+ mph with the rear of the 17.40 Glasgow to Euston express, which had been stopped in open country in the middle of the night after a soldier on Leave had pulled the communication cord to get home across the fields and the express had been wrongly reported 'out of section' by the Winsford signalman.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.097715
Longitude
-2.456497